Quiz League Set

As promised, the second set from this weeks Quiz League....

Questions B

Round 1                                                                                                                        

1.       Voted into his sports Hall of Fame in 1958 and the subject of a 2003 Hollywood movie, who died in 1947 aged 14 as a result of a heart attack?	Seabiscuit
2.       What is the worlds southernmost landlocked country?	Lesotho
3.       Who was the first boxer, representing Great Britain, to win an Olympic gold medal in the Super Heavyweight Division?	Audley Harrison
4.       Which singer has announced he is planning a musical film set in Ipswich?	Ed Sheeran

 

Round 2

1.       What was the nickname of the London building that won the 2015 Carbuncle Award as the country's worst new building?	The Walkie Talkie
2.       Born Tony Beke, whose recent Christmas album contains  what the Sunday Times described as a bizarre version of the Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor?	Anton Du Beke
3.       Which Premier League team's manager (as of last week) is a former American international?	HUDDERSFIELD Town
4.       Which Stanley Kubrick film is based on a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray and tells the tale of a fictional 18th Century Irish Rogue?	Barry Lyndon

Round 3

1.       Sharing a name with the size of a champagne bottle, what is the name of the seminal photographic group founded by Henri-Cartier Bresson and Robert Capa?	Magnum
2.       The Prime Minister famously had a glass eye after a rugby injury but what was the nickname of the Gordon Brown, who played  at lock on three Lions tours and once punched his opposite number so hard his glass eye fell out?	Broon frae Troon (accept "from")
3.       Gammeltorv is the name of the oldest square at the heart of which European Capital City?	Copenhagen
4.       The High Roller, the largest Ferris Wheel in the world, can be found in which city?	Las Vegas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions B

 

Round 4

1.       Which impressionist was the first person to impersonate the Queen on TV but fearful of reprisals changed her name to the Duchess of Brenda?	Stanley Baxter
2.       The name of which style of cooking in Japanese cuisine literally means “Glazed Roast”?	Teryiaki
3.       The Classic FM Radio show “High Score” plays music taken from what?	Video Games
4.       The Italian cities of Genoa and Livorno have a coastline on which sea?	Ligurian Sea

 

Round 5

1.       Which bank, still in business today, issued the first UK credit Card in 1969?	Barclays
2.       Which female author is the only person to win a Booker Prize and an Oscar. The Booker Prize was won in the 1970s with both of her Oscars coming in the 1980s?	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
3.       Musicians Brian Jones, Gustav Holst and Wurzel from Motörhead were all born in which spa town?	Cheltenham
4.       Barci the cockerel features in the logo of which restaurant chain?	Nandos

 

Round 6

1.       Based on passenger numbers, which was the UK’s busiest railway station in 2017 outside of London?	Birmingham New Street
2.       The late Fats  Domino's eight children all shared the same initial as himself. What is it?	A (for Antoine)
3.       The city of Ragusa on the Adriatic changed its name to what in 1918?	Dubrovnik
4.       Detroit is situated where the Detroit River leaves which lake?	Lake St Clair

 

 

 

 

Spare

 

1.       Played by Dan Stevens, who is the subject of the 2017 film “The Man Who invented Christmas”?                                                                                                Charles Dickens

2.       Featuring a protagonist named Harry, “Only Time Will Tell” is the first novel in which series of books?     The Clifton Chronciles

 

3.       Which drink, launched in 1901, is currently being hoarded in Scotland due to the announced change in recipe in response to the upcoming introduction of Sugar Tax?

Irn Bru

 

 

Latest set for the Sunderland Quiz League

Here is the latest set I wrote, with the help of league organiser Chris Brewis, for the Sunderland Echo League quiz this week. As always, its worth mentioning that this is a team based quiz so the questions tend to be a little more testing than quiz leagues with an individual focus...Set B to follow tomorrow

Sunderland Echo Quiz League

2018

Set by Chesters

Questions A

Round 1                                                                                                                        

1.       Actors Tom Conti, Gerard Butler and singer Gerry Rafferty were all born in which town, which to the amazement of some was on the shortlist to be Britain's City of Culture 2021?	Paisley
2.       Which Premier League team's manager (as of last week) is a former international for the Republic of Ireland?	Brighton and Hove Albion (London-born Chris Hughton)
3.       Which actress was certainly being serious when she told tales of her marital woes in her autobiography entitled “A Paper Life”?	Tatum O Neal
4.       If you travelled directly south from any point of Majorca, which would be the first country you would hit?	Algeria

 

Round 2

1.       Ed Sheeran's mother was called Imogen after his grandmother's friend, who was director of the Aldeburgh Festival for 20 years and the daughter of which English composer?	Gustav Holst
2.       Airing on BBC 1 from 1979 to 1981 for 21 episodes, and revived for a one off special in 2007, which sitcom takes its title loosely from a quote from “Hamlet”?	To the Manor Born
3.       Taking its first paying passengers in 2008, when it was the largest of its kind in the world, what is the Singapore Flyer?	A Ferris Wheel
4.       The Australian city of Cairns has a coastline on which sea?	Coral Sea

 

Round 3

1.       In 2015, who became the first boxer to have won both an Olympic Gold Medal for Team GB and a Professional world title?	James De Gale
2.       In 1986, what became was the first daily newspaper in the UK to be printed in colour?	Today
3.       In 1993, Rachel Whiteread became the first woman to win which annual award?	Turner Prize
4.       The city of Hue was the capital of which country between 1902 and 1945?	Vietnam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions A

 

Round 4

1.       Which band's final  British appearance was a Christmas benefit concert for the children of striking firemen in Huddersfield in December 1977 ?	The Sex Pistols
2.       The Tartan Giraffe Ball will be staged in Kelso on Friday (January 26)in honour of which sportsman?	Doddie Weir
3.       Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded which American city?	Detroit
4.       An extension to which  London building inspired the naming of the Carbuncle Awards?	The National Gallery

 

Round 5

1.    Based on passenger numbers, which was the busiest railway station in the UK in 2017?	London Waterloo
2.       What animal appears on the logo of Bacardi?	Bat
3.       'Yerba Buena' was the original name of which North American bay city, later given another Spanish name?	San Francisco
4.       Paul McCartney is the only person to have UK Number 1 singles as part of a five piece, a four piece, a threesome, a duet and as a solo artist. But which song was his only solo number 1 single, occurring in 1984?	Pipes of Peace

 

Round 6

1.       Which street in London, that appears on the Monopoly board, takes its name from a croquet like game played in the 17th Century?	Pall Mall
2.       Sharing her name with a famous character from the world of Opera, what was the first name of the only daughter of General Franco who died in December 2017?	Carmen
3.       Canada's Thousand Islands Sauce originated on islands in which body of water?	The St Lawrence River
4.       Which former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom had a brother called Austen who served as a Foreign Secretary and won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize?	Neville Chamberlain

 

Quiz Night

Just posting up for this in that area......

Quiz Question Answers

As promised here are the answers from the quiz posted up yesterday...

1.       Which track from the album ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’  shares a name with an annual musical festival founded in 2001	All Tomorrows Parties
2.       Which English novelist is best remembered for his series of works featuring the character of Dr. Fu Manchu?	Sax Rohmer (or Arthur Ward)
3.       Which plant species is named after the man who served as both the Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren and as the first United States Minister to Mexico?	Poinsettia
4.       Who was known as the ‘Voice of Wimbledon’ due to his extensive career as a Tennis Commentator? His last Wimbledon commentary being the 1991 Stitch/Becker final for the BBC, 42 years after his first.	Dan Maskell
5.       Who is the only female track and field Athlete to win 6 Olympic Gold Medals?	Alyson Felix
6.       ‘Along Came a Spider’ is the first book in James Paterson’s series of novels featuring which protagonist?	Alex Cross
7.       Which poet won the Costa Poetry Award 2018 with her final collection of poetry 'Inside the Wave' , much of which was written in the weeks before her death?	Helen Dunmore
8.       Who played George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s 2008 film ‘W’?	Josh Brolin
9.       What nationality was the graphic artist MC Esher (1898-1972)?	Dutch
10.   Which female solo artist is the only person to win the Mercury Music Prize on more than one occasion?	PJ Harvey
11.   Who played Queen Victoria in the 1974 film ‘The Great McGonagall’?	Peter Sellers
12.   In 1984, which singer became the first to have a number 1 both as a duo and as a solo artist in the same year?	George Michael

Quiz Questions

A quick selection of questions to get stuck in. Answers tomorrow! Let me know how you got on...

1.       Which track from the album ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’  shares a name with an annual musical festival founded in 2001

2.       Which English novelist is best remembered for his series of works featuring the character of Dr. Fu Manchu?

3.       Which plant species is named after the man who served as both the Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren and as the first United States Minister to Mexico?

4.       Who was known as the ‘Voice of Wimbledon’ due to his extensive career as a Tennis Commentator? His last Wimbledon commentary being the 1991 Stitch/Becker final for the BBC, 42 years after his first.

5.       Who is the only female track and field Athlete to win 6 Olympic Gold Medals?

6.       ‘Along Came a Spider’ is the first book in James Paterson’s series of novels featuring which protagonist?

7.       Which poet won the Costa Poetry Award 2018 with her final collection of poetry 'Inside the Wave' , much of which was written in the weeks before her death?

8.       Who played George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s 2008 film ‘W’?

9.       What nationality was the graphic artist MC Esher (1898-1972)?

10.   Which female solo artist is the only person to win the Mercury Music Prize on more than one occasion?

11.   Who played Queen Victoria in the 1974 film ‘The Great McGonagall’?

12.   In 1984, which singer became the first to have a number 1 both as a duo and as a solo artist in the same year?

HQ Trivia

 

 

HQ Trivia is something I imagine a lot of people reading this will already be playing! Recently released for Android, having been available for a month or so on IOS, HQ is a live trivia game in which getting 12 correct answers correctly can earn you a share of cash!

 

The game has been getting hundreds of thousands, and on occasions over a million, players taking part in each game. They roughly start around 9pm and 2am each night, but they have recently started doing UK games around 3pm and 8pm too.

 

It is hosted by a live host and you can follow each game until the end to see who is eliminated. The prizes are shared and there has been massive variation between no winners, meaning a roll over, and several hundred winners, meaning the prize is minimal. But people have walked away with $6000 and other similar figures, so you might get lucky. Quizzing knowledge will only get you so far, but the nature of the questions means you have got to have a lucky guessing finger!

 

If you do download it please use my Referral Code (which is just my user name "DanielFullard") and Ill get a free life!

Sunderland Echo Quiz League

Then Sunderland Echo Quiz League returns from the Winter Break tonight in what is shaping up to be the closest season yet. If you live in the local area and fancy giving the league a try pop me an email on daniel@thequizaddict.com and Ill put you in touch with the relevant people :)